An Increasingly Stupid Session of Slay the Spire 

It's just because you're British

See, that's where I had the wrong idea, I was doing it in poker

🤣🤣🤣

Pfffffffffffft.

@@MasquedJustice how could you tell

don't forget piercing wail, literally screeching at the enemy until they don't hit as hard

@@jamielayne3916 did he do that in the run?

the only problem is that if you're going with a shiv build you are guaranteed to encounter the time eater as the 3rd boss who will end your run because he's the worst boss in the game

Pillar men awaken plays AGGRESIVLY AT 2xSPEED

@@ketra1504 well, you can see at the start of act 3 what boss you get, so you have the entire act to grab poison, accuracy, or any high impact or scaling card.

hes irish, not british

The authentic Britain vs Ireland experience

Nah, that's the British strat. The Irish strat is clearly car bombing the enemy into submission.

@@asimplekoala6687 That’s offensive… it’d be like saying the American way is flying planes into a building

@@DeathnoteBB nah the American way is walking into a school with a drum mag.

But like a severely discounted version.

Considering that it was supposed to have a big light at the top of it, it kind of is

@@SK-ww7ud doesn't it also light up like a lightsaber on May fourth and shit?

Obviously you don't know your Ireland lore

Everyone has a tower respawn point, Big Ben for the English, CN tower for the Canadians, Eiffel Tower for the French and the Empire State for the Americans

Sakuya Izayoi from 2HU 6

Certified D&D moment.

The Silent is actually a girl surprisingly enough! This isn't quite apparent in her base design but (if you complete a particular achievement in the game), you unlock her beta card art and let's just say that fact becomes a lot more apparent in some of the beta art designs. (A lot of the other Beta arts in the game are still amazing though speaking as an absolute fan of this game)

@@thefreddyfazter781 This. This is the best text that will ever be written.

@@thefreddyfazter781 this is the funniest thing I’ve ever read Lmao

Chat was obsessed with survivor

what's scary in survivor?

@@NoNameAtAll2 do not question the ways of the Chat.

@@NoNameAtAll2 Nothing's scary about it, they were just like, "OMG, he actually used Survivor!" every single time he used it.

They'd also flip out every time he DIDN'T use Survivor, so there's really just no winning.

It's his training for the final fight

Dublin Spire mod? Given that it only appears at the end though, you can just replace the picture on the files.

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fun fact- the stream title was “slaying dublin spire”

@DONT go to my home page! Get a father

more like twenty-eight thousand stab wounds

He ran into my knife 10 times

You forgot the poison, yes i didnt

*99% Stress Level*

DID YOU FEEL ANGER? HE WAS BLEEDING, BEGGING FOR MERCY-

Spoiler alert, but even despite Dan's best efforts and ridiculous amounts of knives, The Spire couldn't be Slain, so feel free to sleep in peace, knowing that this landmark is still standing.

They wouldn't know where Dublin is anymore They'd get lost!

what'd dublin even do without the big rock stick?

RT: Ha. Knives go *shlinck*.

they could always replace it with a toblerone obelisk

RT's a rogue

@@themushroommonarch well no, rogues will pull more elaborate finness wepons out of weird places *Looks at my rogue with a vorpal scimitar*

comical

it's that clip from the matrix with the metal detector then neo just reveals an entire armoury in his jacket

@@MemezuiiSangkanskje Or when the Joker gets arrested and they pull out like 100+ knives and a potato peeler from his person.

Bianco Hy

If RT does end up streaming Slay the Spire again, this would be a great reference. I imagine that specifically against Time Eater, RT throws out all of his options at Time Eater and his turn automatically ends when the boss is at 1HP. Then RT dies to Time Eater. That just seems like such a perfect moment to quit and say "Wanna play Mario Sunshine?"

Boosting. Thanks for the info!

so true!

+1

this game is BEAUTIFUL and i'm so glad it's getting more love

I think it's key to note some of the beta art is hilarious, especially on the Watcher.

tossing shivs and in general using loads of cards in one turn feels very satisfactory

Super fun until you get Time Eater as your third boss and he just tells you no. I was hoping that's who he'd get and have his deck just hard countered to oblivion.

@@anthonybowman3423 Same

@@anthonybowman3423 I once played with a silent deck with such high drawing power that I was constantly using all 12 moves on Time eater at once. it was fun.

Agreed. Poison and strength strats were kinda fun to play with too.

I mean, that deck was broken enough to beat ascension 0 time eater for sure.

@@samepicgamer and also he did have the fumes to help him using poison

as someone who has been losing the first level of Ascension to the Time Eater for the last 2 weeks, I relate to this comment spiritually

with all those powers i half expected the awakened one to do better...it almost felt like it should have considering he basically ignored the ritualists and let them stack str.

I just ran into Time Eater in Darkest Dungeon because I used nothing but rogues

Thanks for the kind words, you're very welcome :)

He's doing a fantastic job of explaining the game as he goes along, but to call him 'RIDICULOUSLY good' would be hyperbole in the extreme. He's not capitalizing on his Kunai bonus dexterity in the same turns he gets them (he casts his Blocks before he attacks, which is straight up wrong with Kunai) and he isn't prioritizing his offense properly on Ironclad to utilise his heal (visible in him messing up the first fight.) Basically the only reason he wins on Silent is that every single relic he received was god-tier, with the sole exception of Pantograph, which is still really good. His deck also likely loses straight up to Time Eater, one of 3 possible permutations of the last boss, which punishes low-value card spam decks. For a player who is completely new, this would be good progress, but RT explained on his stream that he HAS played this game on his Switch before, making it impressive the other way around that he hasn't grasped many of these basics intuitively despite playing (presumably) 3-4 runs already before this stream. That said, RT IS an absolute god at being able to keep his content hilarious even in an otherwise fast-paced, ostensibly 'not much to be said game'.

@@oopsausername4111 I still think he might be able to kill Time Eater, as he has Kunai Tactically counting cards could save his sorry ass

@@RTGame more like bore ragnarok

Ridiculously good? Bruh, what. He took Barricade on floor 1. He took Bomb _on purpose._ If you think that's "good" I shudder to think what your runs must be.

And about 1.5 metric crap tons of knives

Same, fuck that thing

Dan pulls on green, white, and orange gauntlet: "Fine. I'll do it myself."

Spy around here!

Piddly-diddly? After the wrist blade the damage was like six, add the terror and that 'weak' shiv attack is nine! xD Not the the most impressive amount but it's better than upgraded regular strike

I mean there is a power card called accuracy that increase the dmg of Shiv which is as broken as you can think can be

I've wanted him to play this for like 1 and a half years, just because it's named SLAY THE SPIRE

Roguelikes*

@@jackychang9148 No father*

@@MasquedJustice Your education is important son. I want you to be a doctor when you grow up!

@@jackychang9148 I think you misunderstood

"i got me license for stabbin'! by the queen"

@@phasedcloak2835"Sorry mate, license is a license, can't interfere."

​@@derphunk5338 "bloody ell" "Bit sad innit"

Super easy, barely an inconvenience

everytime i saw the word backflip i always get reminded of that guy

​@@helper_bot who?

@@blakksheep736 Ryan George. He is where the "Do a backflip, snap the bad guy's neck and save the day." reference comes from.

@@HumanoidCrearure thx.

I'm pretty sure that's by design. The ironclad has lots of hp (more from burning blood) and high damage to pretty consistently get through act 1, but the synergies for him are actually not easy to see initially. On the other hand, silent has many cards that directly say "shiv" or "poison", making it VERY easy to find a strong synergy and get a good run. So a new player will have the ironclad's hp to brute force through the game while learning it, while actually learning the hook of the game with the silent.

@@gengarisnotinsmash... _gasp_ you mean this game suffer from... *GOOD DESIGN ?!*

@@gengarisnotinsmash... and then you start playing ironclad again and realise hes the strongest character

@@gabrielbrunet7150 the other day I got an insane ironclad run where I used like 19 cards average a turn. Ironclad is the mot fun character to play IMO

@@Mirdion Corruption right ? yeah iron is very versatile and all his playstyles are fun cant say that for the others

Shield shiv+ envenom is hilarious, especially with snecko skull.

The real final boss is a pretty decent counter to it though, with its ability to deal damage every time you play a card.

@@tortoiseoflegends4466 not with afterimage, especially 2 and kunai or the fan. As even one afterimage offsets the damage from that for a few turns. The build rt had does it effectively permanently, especially when using the shield cards last to make more use of the kunai.

@@generalgarchomp333 on A20 you'd need 3 after images to block the damage for the whole fight, since the heart starts at beat of death 2 (beat of death being the buff the heart has that damages you) and on one of its buff turns it goes up to 3

The thing about the silent is that she has a shit starter deck. The most commonly recognized op character is actually the watcher with someone getting a 80% winrate with her on the highest difficulty (A20 heart)

I mean, we have the GPO, but like...

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Dublin's most historic landmark

And fittingly, the final boss perfectly counters RT's playstyle in this video.

@@tortoiseoflegends4466 I don't really know much about Slay the Spire, but that fight seemed really easy for him. How is the Awakened One a counter to his strategy?

@@ayaanmohammad6645 Oh, once you've beat act 3 once you unlock a fourth act, with another boss. That boss has an ability which deals damage to you every time you play a card. RT can kind of nullify that with his defense whenever he plays a card, but the two kind of cancel eachother out and the boss itself deals heaps of damage on top of that effect.

I feel like with how much block RT could gain, especially with scaling dexterity, it would have been fine as long as he played his cards right

@@samepicgamer Fair enough, Im too used to any sense of scaling being outdone by bosses on the higher ascensions.

@@actone4822 yeah, ascension 0 and ascension 20 are 2 entirely different games, I’m curious if RT will try and climb the ascensions, would be interesting to see him get better

@@samepicgamer For sure, I've only got to A13 myself, and I haven't gotten any further than A5 on Watcher. Stuff gets tough.

What does Time Wizard do?

i fucking hate dead branch so much every time i don't want it i get it that stupid piece of wood is the bane of my existence this is nothing against you i just hate that fucking branch

thats such a fun combo. One time i put it a corruption in the wall grabbed it as the silent with the dead branch and had silent shiv shenanigans

"Have you tried cheating? The enemy won't mind!" (or something like that, I can't remember the exact quote, I need to rewatch that gem of a video)

@@KingNedya I think you mean "Have you tried taking an extra turn? The enemy won't mind!"

@@crabman2073 Oh yeah that's the one, thank you.

Dammit Khadgar.

@@KingNedya "the enemy started out with extra mana, you should too!". God I love Khadgar. That video occasionally comes up on my recommended and I always rewatch it cause it was so absurd

When you have Blasphemy bottled :o

@@placeholder6974 bottled blasphemy + runic pyramid lmao.

Yeah it's super easy to kill yourself with the watcher because you thought you had lethal when you didn't.

Ah he wounds me just like Mark Of Pain does, he shuffles unplayable status cards into my draw pile

They may not let you forget but have you tried simply not remembering?

@@ferretappreciator gaslight them. "What do you mean that happened?? No it didn't I don't remember. You're making it up"

@@clyne8835 Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss

the only flaw of the mad dummy was its severe lack of knives

DOWNFALL BABY

I think his advanced pokemon expertise helps him in this type of strategy game

To be fair, he got pretty lucky with the multiple early after images, the hidden blade, and the kunai at the start (plus he got imo one of the easier 3rd floor bosses, the donut pair (without corpse explosion) and the time slug are a bit trickier to combo). But that luck is also a big part of the fun, since the combos are so satisfying, but I'd also be interested in seeing him try the ascensions though. Since beating the heart is the real challenge.

@@DyslecticAttack Time Slug is horrible

@@orctrihar Gotta play exactly 12 cards or just die

@@orctrihar facts

Why good sir, that sounds great! Where do I get to play it?

@@HazeEmry Sorry for not responding, it's out on Steam right now!

I rewatched this video, scrolled down and this got my attention a 2nd time. I really have to look it up now lol

You should try the Downfall mod, too.....once you understand the base game. It gets, complicated.... It's fun, though.

@@avereynakama9854 I’ll take a look at it, cheers

i'm very glad!! i've been in love with this game for years

Yeah, kind of same to the Ironclad using corruption and barricade/keep the armour -15 artifact. You would think that eventually you'll run out of cards but they just keep coming. Also invulnerable is a good add, 30/40 armour with no cost. I don't remember the highest I got with that run but I think I did have over 200 at one point

It really wasn't. Certainly not on the hardest difficulty at least. Put simply, Shivs get hard countered by Time Eater. And on the highest difficulty, in addition to an obscene number of other ways the game gets more difficult, *the chance you encounter Time Eater is doubled, to 2/3 of all runs.* So it's nowhere near as good in that context.

They're not his nightmares, they're his dreams. Also, there's been like 10 comments about the Dublin Spire within the first 5 minutes, so I'd say this joke is underused really

I have also just realized the thumbnail has THE Dublin Spire, with a knife in it We've been beaten to the punchline

The long tall thingy

SHAMK